We feel so much potential in us. Have you ever felt, “There is so much I want to give, so much I want to share with the world, I have so much love to give and thoughts to express that could change people’s lives” Have you ever felt this?

We all feel this potential inside us. We were created to give to the world that which has been gifted inside us. So why is that we don’t move into this potential? We know we have it in us and we know what we should be doing… we get sparks of excitement, surges of energy, boosts of desire, yet we slink back in that which is comfortable.

Off and on through our lives you have encountered situations and words spoken to you that has caused you to hide a part of yourself, because you were made to feel less than. You were struck with feelings of shame and decided to hide that part of yourself, so the pain of this shame wouldn’t happen again. You experienced disapproval from someone you admire, love or respect and pulled back to play it safe. All the pulling back you did was to protect that part of you from experiencing pain again.

What is that stops you, what is it that blocks you from moving ahead? You see others experiencing their dreams and giving to the world, like the sports players, singers, actors People like Bill Gates, Oprah. You know you are supposed to be able to do the same…

So, what really stops you from experiencing what your heart longs to do? What is stopping you from expressing yourself fully, from reaching your full potential?

Even though you may have all the information to do this, something is blocking you!

Sometimes you know what you should be doing and yet you do the complete opposite. You know what you should do and you know what you shouldn’t do and you’re not doing any of that.  You’re not even taking your own advice.

You’ve developed personas and built layers of who you think you should be so you would experience love and acceptance. You’ve learned this survival mechanism. You go through life holding tight this version of yourself that you now know as you. All of your experiences get filtered through your nervous system. They are then interpreted into thoughts and then actions of what needs to be done. Those painful interpretations funnel into actions of withdrawal and hiding, while happy interpretations are free flowing, allowed and sought after again and again.

The more you have stuff blocking you, resentments, unforgiveness, pain, embarrassments, shame , anger, the more you are less able to interpret situations with clarity. This box that you build is not an intentional box, however, once built, it is hard to crawl out of it without some type of perceptional help to see things with clarity.

You may not even realize that you live in a box, and yet in your mind you think you are free. But in actuality, you’re stuck, confused and unable to break free.

And what’s important to realize is that you’ve convinced yourself that you are free and only because it hurts less to deceive yourself that you are.

So what if you could stop deceiving yourself and start to really live free? Free from the box that you’ve been hiding all those marvelous gifts in.

Today is a new day for you! Yesterday and all those words are a part of your past that will no longer cringe upon your present and future. It’s time to let go of those people and words that cause you to be less than your best. You deserve to be a part of the beautiful world and this beautiful world deserves you to be a part of it. So, step out into your calling. Step forth in those gifts you were born with.

It’s time to forgive yourself and it’s time to forgive God. It’s time to forgive those that have hurt you. Forgiveness releases you to move forward. Forgiveness is not for anyone else. Why forgive God? Because in your mind, He wasn’t there for you! In your mind, He didn’t protect you. Even though He did nothing wrong, in your mind He did. He taught me this lesson and I had to walk through this forgiveness process as well.

Your true self is not those things to have kept you down, you are so much more than that. Your true self is deeper than all those things and is just waiting for you to give it permission to come forth. Be bold today, and give yourself permission to heal, to forgive, to move forward. Today, you can be better than you were yesterday. Today you can step into that which has been yearning to come forth. Today you can give yourself permission to be who you truly are without fear of being disapproved. Those who have disapproved of you, did so out of ignorance. They are hurt themselves and can’t see perfection standing right before them.

Today give yourself permission to release all those things that have stopped you and when the fear or anxiety arrives to pull you back to that place of safety, acknowledge those feelings and tell yourself that you are ok. You no longer are going to be ruled by them. Those feeling no longer serve you and then do exactly the opposite those feelings have always lead you to do.

Carl Jung (Photo credit: Psychology Pictures)

It’s essential to bring more conscious awareness into your life. Especially in everyday situations when find that life is running quiet and smooth.. You want to generate a high vibration field that surrounds you and attracts to you more positive people. When we master positive energy, no darkness, negativity or discord can survive because darkness is dispelled by light. When you learn to see your thoughts, you become aware of where the improvement is needed. We often discover where we are uneasy within and can move to correct it. And if we make it a habit to watch and monitor our mental self through observation, we find getting closer to the goal of positive energy and vibration is not so difficult. A couple a great questions to ask yourself is:

1. Am I at ease this moment? If not why…
2. What’s going on inside me? (look for what triggered any uneasiness)
3. Am I tense anywhere tension in my body? (understanding this can help pinpoint what is happening)

I love the quote from Carl Jung “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Keep practicing! Nothing great was ever achieved over night!!
~Veronica Schultz the Soul Whisperer

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Speaking from the heart frees us from secrets that turn into heavy burdens. Those burdens kept cause a weakening of our immune system, as it’s been proven that fear and anxiety are behind at least 15 or more different diseases. Speak the truth, get clarity within your soul and live free.

I do not know when it started for me, all the self rejection and self-hatred, I’m sure as a little girl. We live with it for so long that we think living with these beliefs are normal. When in reality, it has been a strategic lie from the enemy. Fear and anxiety, after a period of time, creates 15 or so different diseases all stemming from our immune system being compromised. Jesus came to give us peace, a peace that surpasses all understanding. Why do we lean to believe the opposite? Why do we believe the lie rather than the truth! Live! I say live in Jesus Name! Choose life and live.

In the name of Jesus and by the precious blood of Jesus I command the spirit of fear and anxiety to leave you. Be broken off you and your life! I speak the peace of Jesus Christ into your life down to your very cells.

Remember, Jesus has work for you to do here. If you die too soon… He is going to ask you why you are there at heaven when he needed you here in your generation. He has work for you to do. Give up the fear… There is nothing God can’t and will not do for you. Get yourself before Him today in gratitude and love and thank Him for the peace, the healing, the goodness He has for you.

For the last several days, I’ve had a gnawing feeling of unsettleness. I’m not sure that is even a word, but it seems to describe perfectly what I feel, you know what I mean when I say this? Lots of thoughts swirling in my head that are counterproductive and even though I knew it was, I couldn’t pull myself out of it. Well this morning, a friend reached out to me reminding me that I am loved and supported. Just this simple act meant so much to me and changed the course of my downward spiral. As I pondered this… I remembered an important concept I truly understood not to long ago.

“Let go and just be”

What does this mean? The Lord teaches us to honor the Sabbath day. What He is saying to us is to rest in HIM! When we try to do only what He can do, we get stressed, worried… this leads to dissatisfaction, discouragement, discontentment and confusion. We only find rest in Him. Jesus says “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matt 11:28. When we try to do things in our own might, we have lost our rest in Him. We have lost our Sabbath day. I was trying to do things in my own might and just yesterday I said to my daughter that I felt like I was not busy enough. Those words were a clue, but I didn’t get it till today.

I hope this encourages you as it has me. Let go and find your rest. Release the burden of being someone you are not.You are loved!!! xoxo

Is this the BEST marriage proposal in History? I couldn’t say, but I would say YES!!

A Portland actor Isaac Lamb wanted to propose to his special girl, Amy Frankel. He and 60 other people – family and friends helped him make his proposal unique, unforgettable and endearing! All of them lip-dubbed to the song as they danced giving the undeniable message from Isaac, “I want to marry you”

Isaac – On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent’s house for dinner. When she arrived I had stationed my brother to sit her in the back of an open Honda CRV and give her some headphones. He “wanted to play her a song”…

What she got instead was the world’s first Live Lip-Dub Proposal.

Enjoy!

I loved it! LOVE LOVE LOVED it!! And his future wife, Amy Frankel enjoyed it as well. She said YES!!!

God resists the proud!
Do you want God to resist you?

My girlfriend asked me this question and I’ll tell you, it struck a nerve with me. Of course NOT I told her.
Get your heart right with Jesus, every time you see pride. One week in particular, I remember feeling like I was prostrating myself so much before God asking for forgiveness, I thought I shouldn’t bother getting up. I just didn’t seem to go for long before I found myself all bowed up in pride again. Those judgmental condemning thoughts are straight from hell. Oh do I need God’s grace in every area of my life. He promises that in His strength I will be able to stay humble before Him. Lean into Him darling, lean into Him!!!

Have a really great week and keep careful watch over your spiritual heart. I want you to be blessed, not cursed or resisted.

Accept who you are and make the needed adjustments to speed you on your way!

The kind old woman asked me, “If you could change anyone in the world, who would you change?” I sat in silence and looked at her, contemplating the depth of her question. “I would and can only change me. Is that right” I asked. She said “That is right child. The world changes because we are the singular catalyst to it’s change. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. Powerful change starts with us”

Spirits of the Other Kingdom and Pride

You know about the devils kingdom and all the spirits. Pride is the biggest and most dangerous spirit and many of us have that spirit niggling us constantly. Therefore we are always bowing up and can’t humble to hear anyone.

The other thing to know is that when people allow this pride spirit to manifest so strongly, they are injured and use pride as a shield to protect against seeing fault with oneself. People may feel so horrible about themselves, but will never admit it because to them that means more failure.

James 4:6 God resists us when we’re in pride. Do we want God resisting us?

It’s important to understand how Jesus see’s us and replace the lies we believe with the Truth. When we are growing and healing it’s necessary to look at our behaviors, our motives and our attitudes with complete honesty. This is where many who fall into the category I just talked about stumble and fall. Looking at the wrongness in us is not trying to find fault but attempting to correct what is broken. Let me give you a word picture. We are on a boat and the boat springs a leak. If we ignore this leak, we will sink. We must look at it, even in spite of our fear and make the necessary amends to fix that hole! To see the hole doesn’t mean the boat is a bad boat, it just means it’s broke and needs fixing. We usually don’t throw out our car when it has engine trouble do we? No we don’t. So it’s important to have that same mentality when it comes to ourselves. “I must get this car fixed so I can drive it places. I’ve got people to see, work to accomplish and things to do”. Amen and amen, it’s the same with us. Let’s not drive us around in a broken state.

You won’t be my measure of success! Not this Time!

Inner Body and Organ Cleanse

It’s horrible to feel sick and lethargic all the time. You might think, “where has my energy gone? Am I getting old?” I am here to tell you that I thought those same questions. This was before I was introduced to healthy living. I had no idea I was killing myself from eating all the wrong foods. I grew up with many of these wrong foods that I thought it was normal and healthy to eat like that. It wasn’t till I got sick that I became open to the whole new healthy life style.

I was so excited because I am now seeing positive healthy changes in me. I am doing a inner body and organ/liver cleanse and am on day 9. It’s had its challenges, but hasn’t been as hard as I thought it would be. I may not be saying that by next Monday though. I start an all liquid diet and am hoping to do it for 3-10 days.

Wight loss should happen while I’m doing this and so it appears to be. I do hope to lose all my weight. Being overweight is not healthy for any of us. I’ve decided to try something completely new this time. I am locking away my scale!! Yup, that’s right.. crazy huh? and I have no idea how much, if any weight I’ve lost. I refuse to step on a scale to check it out. I’ve used a scale for every previous diet I’ve been on and it seems to create this awful focus on weight being a value of success. So this time, I am just watching and sensing the changes. My clothes are definitely fitting different and my belly is smaller. I have more energy and I haven’t felt this healthy in a long long time! – positive!!!

You are worthwhile…
do you know this?

You are precious…
do you accept this?

Perhaps you have a hard time believing these very real truths because of the conditioning, the environment you grew up in. Just maybe during the traumatic moments, there was no gentle soul to help guide your precious feelings and your huge hurts, noone to help you make the right choices with your heart. Instead, you were left to make life altering choices, vows and judgments that shaped and formed who you are today. Perhaps this is why you struggle with the little insecurities and fears that you do. Perhaps you emotionally stumble along and have become a master of deception. It might be that no one knows how you really feel about yourself, because if they do, they might really find out how scared you really are. False fear has a way of keeping us emotionally crippled. Many of us learn how to overcome these things after many years of mistakes and loss. But what if you had someone who cared, someone who could see the perfect person that you are and help you to see that too?

I see people struggling with this everywhere I go. It’s time… It’s time to give up the false fear and step into the truth of who you are. I create an environment that will help you see yourself in ways that you haven’t been able to see or haven’t wanted to see. You need to honor and love who you are! Know your worth and value. If you can’t honor and love yourself, how will other people in your life be able to honor and love you? People pick up on how you feel about yourself, even if they do not understand what they sense, they get it.

Perhaps you’re ready to cast off that old hurtful, painful and fearful person, step into transformation and become that wonderful person who feels good about whom you are. To love the quiet moments with your own thoughts.

I am as you might say, an Unconditioning Coach and a Transformational Specialist. As I coach you from all the unhealthy self-coaching you have done to yourself, you’ll find that there is beauty in YOU waiting to be revealed in all its perfection.

If you are ready… I await to hear from you…

The good news is yes you can. Many times these actions are decided instantaneously. Here are 4 steps to help you overcome these moments. Because really, the idea is to stay in control and to stop hurting the other person.

1. take a deep breath – this allows you think and gain control

2. remind yourself to give yourself time to think about the situation without responding

3. when you get a moment, write it down to release it. this allows our mind to process

4. when the emotions are settled, consider your part in it first and be honest with yourself

After you’ve taken these steps, you will have better control, a deeper consciousness and if you were honest with yourself, a humility to be able to lovingly and with wisdom communicate with the other to come to a mutual understanding.

~Veronica Schultz Life Coach/Mentor

The other day I woke up with the internal struggles of emotional baggage. I was fighting bronchitis and a sinus infection and had just gotten back from Mexico. I was worn out! Take into consideration that on these days, we may be more susceptible to feeling below par, maybe even entertain worthless and low self-esteem feelings. It was on this day that I found victory, faster than I had ever had before and that was because I have been so diligent with truth and awareness about heart and soul issues. It inspired me to write this to encourage you with a perspective of our daily challenges and the stance we need to take with them. Everyone has their own challenges, so when you read this, let it speak to you about yours. Being a “Warrior of Life” helps us stay alert and on guard!

Waste no time lamenting on finding a reason why some days we wake up feeling insecure and worthless, just know it happens too many of us. However, recognizing it quickly is imperative to fast action. Waste no time, instead call your “Warrior of Life” to action.

With war waging before us to ruin our day and dampen our mood, refuse to lose! Change your thoughts and push yourself forward into the day you chose to have. A “Warrior of Life” understands that perspective is everything!! Proper perspective knows the truth even if the truth feels different. For instance, when I put on brown tint sunglasses, it alters the color of the sky, but the sky is blue regardless of the glasses I’m wearing and that’s because we know the reality and truth of it!

The reality and truth of our identity is that we are worthwhile regardless of those who have planted the seeds of lies into our lives. And while we may battle this for years because of the deep wounds we’ve received, we must continually encourage ourselves and each other that it gets better and we get stronger, but only if we’re willing to apply ourselves to the task of becoming a “Warrior of Life”. Be diligent, alert and stand guard protecting what is most important – our heart, our mind and our soul! To do otherwise is to grow weary, lose heart and give up – and this is unnecessary defeat!

It is a single decision that stands between where you are now and becoming a “Warrior of Life”; and it is that everyday that we decide our stance for life! With training we become great at this task, eventually becoming quick to respond when danger presents itself. We come to realize that those deep emotional wounds that have penetrated the core of the heart, leaving an emotional scar are the area’s we watch carefully; always making sure the phantom pains of those scars don’t trick us into believing we haven’t overcome them!

Are you ready to live this foundational truth and become a “Warrior of Life”? Because when we do, the battles we fight become mini wars that are easily conquered and then with much joy, we find ourselves standing in the middle of glorious victory!

Please consider sharing this, if this has encouraged you!

Recently, in one of my coaching sessions, I asked this question…

“What emotions do you experience when you consider approaching new people for business or friendship?”

They said, “I experience embarrassment”. I was about to say something when I heard the Whispers of my Soul hushing me to listen. I was led to look up ‘Embarrassment’ in the dictionary. We both got close to the computer and looked as the screen loaded the word Embarrassment.

Dictionary.com 

em·bar·rass

[em-bar–uhs]  Show IPA

–verb (used with object)

1. 1.to cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; disconcert;

Many of us have thought it was cute when we see a child who is shy and embarrassed. Knowing the definition of embarrassment has certainly changed my views on this, as it did the one I was with. Shame and confusion are not positive life valuing attributes. No one need ever feel this way! I sensed how it was changing both our views on this. I am always amazed at how questions can change the world!

My last article delivered a powerful message about our stance in life, which I referred to it as “The Warrior of Life”  Our stance as a warrior bears a striking resemblance to our men in a combat zone. Alert and protective. Our mind is part of the territory we protect. Our inner dialogue is an important part of us. If we are feeding it corrupt and negative thoughts, it is going to produce those fruits in our lives.

How could it change your life if you implemented the attribute of positive thoughts in your life, developing a thought pattern that would value you?

Thoughts are one of the biggest area’s we all deal with and it’s imperative to know that when we’re learning something new, feeling frustration, falling down and even feeling unbalanced is part of a life of change. I know that sometimes life get’s hard and it feels like we don’t have the strength to keep going, to pick up and start again, but we do. If we do not get up, we’re going to stay down and that’s not really where any of us want to be. Do not cast your will and strength aside, instead pull it close to you and treasure it. To believe we don’t have the strength and will power to get up again is a lie! We do! We have the strength and the power to achieve anything we put our mind and will too. We have the will power to keep going and to try again. We have the ability to win in this life. I am not a quitter and neither are YOU!

Nick Vujicic is an amazing man, has accomplished amazing things and has a powerful message of perseverance.

If anyone could’ve let life get him down, it could’ve been Nick. He learned the importance of keeping a positive inner dialogue and he is a great “Warrior of Life”!

Claim victory for yourself! Don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t! If you keep persevering, it won’t be long before you find yourself dancing through the storms of life with a smile on your face and others asking you, where do you get your joy from!!

 If this article inspired you, please consider sharing it with those you know and associate with. Thanks for the bottom of my heart!

Jesus Christ says, “I say unto you that every idle word that men speak, they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment, for by your word shall you be condemned”.

We only have one judge – our word.

Every day we reap what we sow. I was taught that judgment would come at the end of our lives, but as I look back in my life I can see how I’ve attracted the positive as well as the negative experiences, happiness and disaster through my words and my thoughts. We love to joke; we love humor and love to laugh. But we are not careful about the way we do it. We joke and make fun destructively about ourselves and about others, criticize and demean others and guess what…. our subconscious hears it all. It doesn’t have a sense of humor and takes everything seriously. It is always listening to us, guiding us, sending us signals and making life happen for us.

Every time we talk, we are creating a mental picture that impresses the subconscious, which inevitably works out on the external.

I remember having the hardest time waking up for high school. I always slept through my alarm and many times I would be left with 5 minutes to get out of the house to make it on time and that’s if I ran or I’d be late!

I didn’t know where it came from at the time, but I got this idea that if I told my mind that I needed to wake up by a certain time, it would follow my instructions. So the night before, I spoke to myself repeatedly that I would wake up by the time I desired, and I was exact… so let’s say for example, 6:30am. An amazing thing happened. I woke up within 1 minute of the time I chose. Now I should’ve understood about the power of words by that powerful experience, however, it took me years before I began to grasp the concept.

Those who understand the power of the word and have seen it’s affects upon us, become very careful of their speech. Words have a vibration that affects our subconscious and goes out into the universe affecting others and making things happen for us. Life and death come as we call it. Look back in your life, can you see that speaking while angry and bitter has brought destruction and hardship to you and others? What a huge mistake we make to speak while being angry.

When I speak to my husband or children while being angry, my mouth takes on a life of its own and says things I soon regret. Rarely does anything ever get resolved from that. I’ve learned that anger means there is an underline cause happening within me. Once I’ve taken the time to discover this, conversations are healthy and the emotions are steady.

The vibrations our words sends out, attracts that which is common to it. (Birds of a feather flock together) Like-kind hangs with like-kind. Those who continually speak of being sick and diseased, invariably attract sickness and disease.

There was a time in my life I used to think about being sick. Being sick consumed my thoughts because I found having a victim mentality was a great way to get attention. It just so happened that this was a horrible time in my life. I was sick all the time and as much as I hated that, I didn’t know how to get attention in a healthy way. As I learned and grew into knowing healthier ways to get attention, I stopped thinking sick and started thinking healthy. I began to enjoy life and the health my body gave me.

Invisible forces are always at work for us and we are the creator of the force. How many of us are still growing to understand this or are not even aware of it yet? The Bible tells us that “Life and Death are in the power of the tongue”. What about the power of the words in healing! We tend to think of physical healing, but emotional and relational healing is just as important to remember. Yet so many of us are speaking destructively all day and into the night, bringing a death to the things all around us and within us.

I was listening to the radio and changed channels. I stopped to listen when I heard a Doctor begin to talk about health and it’s correlation to our belief system. He shared his stories, one after another. He was saying that many of his cancer patients struggled with bitter, negative and angry thoughts continuously throughout their days. He began to treat their bodies at the same time he treated their belief system. And as they learned the power of words and began to change the way they spoke and thought, their bodies got better as their belief systems did. Now I know many Doctors will bah humbug at this, but I believe it. I believe the health of our words, our belief system and our thoughts have a direct correlation to our physical and emotional health.

So now that we know about the power of Words, why not make the changes in our lives. Aren’t we worth it? Don’t we deserve to be happy and healthy? Aren’t we worth the effort it will take to make these changes? Of course we are!

 If this article inspired you, please consider re-posting it and sharing it with your family and friends.

The Warrior of Life

The other day I woke up with the internal struggles of emotional baggage. I was fighting bronchitis and a sinus infection and had just gotten back from Mexico. I was worn out! Take into consideration that on these days, we may be more susceptible to feeling below par, maybe even entertain worthless and low self-esteem feelings. It was on this day that I found victory, faster than I had ever had before and that was because I have been so diligent with truth and awareness about heart and soul issues. It inspired me to write this to encourage you with a perspective of our daily challenges and the stance we need to take with them. Everyone has their own challenges, so when you read this, let it speak to you about yours. Being a “Warrior of Life” helps us stay alert and on guard!

Waste no time lamenting on finding a reason why some days we wake up feeling insecure and worthless, just know it happens too many of us. However, recognizing it quickly is imperative to fast action. Waste no time, instead call your “Warrior of Life” to action.

With war waging before us to ruin our day and dampen our mood, refuse to lose! Change your thoughts and push yourself forward into the day you chose to have. A “Warrior of Life” understands that perspective is everything!! Proper perspective knows the truth even if the truth feels different. For instance, when I put on brown tint sunglasses, it alters the color of the sky, but the sky is blue regardless of the glasses I’m wearing and that’s because we know the reality and truth of it!

The reality and truth of our identity is that we are worthwhile regardless of those who have planted the seeds of lies into our lives. And while we may battle this for years because of the deep wounds we’ve received, we must continually encourage ourselves and each other that it gets better and we get stronger, but only if we’re willing to apply ourselves to the task of becoming a “Warrior of Life”. Be diligent, alert and stand guard protecting what is most important – our heart, our mind and our soul! To do otherwise is to grow weary, lose heart and give up – and this is unnecessary defeat!

It is a single decision that stands between where you are now and becoming a “Warrior of Life”; and it is that everyday that we decide our stance for life! With training we become great at this task, eventually becoming quick to respond when danger presents itself. We come to realize that those deep emotional wounds that have penetrated the core of the heart, leaving an emotional scar are the area’s we watch carefully; always making sure the phantom pains of those scars don’t trick us into believing we haven’t overcome them!

Are you ready to live this foundational truth and become a “Warrior of Life”? Because when we do, the battles we fight become mini wars that are easily conquered and then with much joy, we find ourselves standing in the middle of glorious victory!

Please consider sharing this, if this has encouraged you!

Thoughts

Many of our thoughts come and go so fast, are generally vague or are not thoroughly thought through enough, that we don’t reach the place of enlightenment; missing the opportunity for change. However, with effort, there is a moment when the thoughts we’ve been pondering and meditating on comes together enlightening us, giving us breakthrough. I had one of these moments recently when I was thinking about the worth of people, including myself.

The defining moment was when the expectations of beauty that society has drawn for us came into focus. I thought about the value of each and every one of us and how this society drawn line has tainted the very thoughts and actions of those towards those considered less than attractive. Regardless of size, color and heritage we ought to be loved and valuable. And on a more personal level, I thought this about myself as well. “Whether I meet society’s standards or whether I am considered attractive or not, I am worth being loved and valuable”. This is when clarity hit.

This is not just about posturing ourselves “to be” regardless of what others attitudes towards us are, but it’s also about having the right thoughts and attitudes towards others.

We should always have the opportunity to work through these enlightening moments. But these enlightenments are what life is all about. And every time we have victory, even the smallest of victories, we are soaring in the heights of life. Because as Delai Lama says, “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

There is often great struggle to reach enlightenment. For freedom comes with a price. One I am glad to pay for the benefits I receive.

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Being me!

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. What you are about to read is the struggle I’ve had for the past few weeks. I lost my footing just a wee bit, but am getting it back. Life is never going to be easy. As we face new challenges, experiences and feel our borders being stretched, it’s not uncommon to have to readjust ourselves. These events however, do not define us. They simply reveal that we are growing and moving in the right direction.  I hope you are inspired by my short share!

As I continue to renew my mind daily, to be grateful about everything, to believe in the gifts within me, to believe with certainty that everything is working out for the best and that my journey is about to explode into wonders, to be spirited, confident and trusting… I find that some days, a fight brews within as my mind tries to settle back into its previous state.

And then I remind myself, who ever said life is without effort? It takes effort to breathe, to eat, to do all the daily things we do without even thinking about it; it’s going to take effort to BE (I should STOP right here, because “TO BE” is a powerful statement in of itself) only those things that are of value to us and others. We cannot go through life, expecting wonderful things to return to us, if our minds are solely centered on ourselves. We must make it a top priority to do for others more than they would ever expect us too. A great leader knows the excellence and lives by the creed of a servant’s heart.

As I wrote … “It’s going to take effort to BE” the power that went through me was incredible. We should just BE! Instead of being who we are, we appear to others as abstract and confusing. Really, how beneficial can we be in life this way! We are created to be. Whether we’ve allowed others to define who we are or we’ve ended up that way by circumstance, it’s time to put a stop to it. Sure it may take time to renew our mind. The same amount of time has been given to all of us. But it’s up to us to make the most of what we’ve been given. Don’t delay. Start right now.

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